Steel-car construction



March 31. 1925. 1,531,761

I l. A. SEIDERS STEEL CAR CONSTRUCTION Filed March 28, 1924 a o u fi E-E J12 jg??? F2 MJATTORNEY Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

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IRWIN A. SEIDERS, F READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

STEEL-CAR CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed March 28, 1924. Serial No. 702,539.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRWIN A.; SEIDERs, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Reading, in the county of Berks,

in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Steel-Car Construction, of which the following is a trueand exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawlngs,which form a part thereof.

My invention relates to the construct on of steel cars and has for itsobject to provide a steel car structure of great strength and greatsimplicity and one peculiarly adapted 5 to resist the destructivestrains to whlch such constructions are subjected. The nature of myimprovements will be best understood as described in connection with thedrawings in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a carconstructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation showing the tie and gusset plates andtheir mode of attachment to the-car body and to each other.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the lin 33 of Fig. 2, and

Figure 4, a sectional view on the line 1- -4 of Fig. 2.

A indicates the car body having steel sides indicated at B, B; Bindicating one of the ends of the car body while at C, I have indicatedthe bottom of the car. D indicates a longitudinal bolster extendingalong the bottom of the car. E, E, are tie plates riveted to andconnecting the lower portions of the sides B, B; the upper edges ofthese tie plates are bent over to one side to form a bulb. as indicatedat E the edge being abutted against the body of tie plate and riveted toit by rivets H as best shown in Fig. 4. F, F, etc., are gusset plateswhich are riveted to the sides of the car body, preferably, as indicatedin Fig. 3, a flange F being formed along one edge of the gusset and anangle G riveted to the gusset on the opposite side as by rivets H, theflange and angle plate being riveted to the sides of the car by rivets HThe inner edge of the gusset plates is bent into a bulb, as indicated atF, the extreme end bein abutted against the body of the gusset and oldby rivets indicated .at H. The gusset plates are of tapered form, asindicated, and at their lower and broader ends they are riveted to thetie plates by rivets'indicated at H.

Preferably and for obvious reasons" the bulbs on the tie plates andconnected gusset plates are bent in opposite directions so that wherethe plates loop and are riveted together by rivets H? the flat surfaceof the plates will contact with each other.

It will be recognized that my described construction, while exceedinglysimple, ,is one which gives greater strength than constructionsheretofore used and that it is also a construction which is peculiarlywell adapted to resist the conditions occurring in prac tical use andtending to distortion or injury of parts of the car structure.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

' 1. A steel car construction having its sides braced by tapered gussetplates riveted to the inside of the sides and having their inner edgesbent over to form bulbs along the inner edges of the gussets, said edgesbeing riveted to the body of the gussets back of the bulbs so. formed.

2. A steel car construction having its sides secured together at theirlower portions by tie plates the top edges of which are bent over toform a bulb and riveted to the body of the tie plate.

3. A steel car construction comprising in combination steel sides, tieplates riveted to the lower portion of said sides and having their topedges turned over to form a bulb and riveted to the body of the platesand tapered gussets riveted to the sides and to the tie plates, saidgussets having their inner edges bent over to form bulbs and riveted tothe body of the gussets.

4. A steel car construction comprising in combination steel sides, tiepl-ates riveted to the lower portion of said sides and having their topedges turned over to form a bulb and riveted to the body of the platesand tapered gussets riveted to the sides and to the tie plates, saidgussets having their inner edges bent over to form bulbs and riveted tothe body of the gussets, the bulbs on the tie plates and attachedgussets being formed on opposite sides of the plates IRWIN A. SEIDERS.

